Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennis (including the annual fall Yardling tournament), squash, fall baseball, and the newly organized Yard inter-dormitory touch football (a part of the ever-increasing House athletic program under the direction of Adolph Samborski '25) are other athletic enticements. Don''t be too down-hearted if your posture is censured to such an extent that you are forced to enter the six-week corrective exercise program. These sessions sound rather gruesome, but they are surprisingly enjoyable if you enter into the spirit of grunting and muscle-pulling...
...enjoy a Gilbert & Sullivan touch to reports from Jamaica...
...ideas in Government broadcasting. The idea man is Shannon Allen, acting radio section director of the Interior Department's Division of Information. A onetime NBC production man, he has the job of coordinating broadcasting activities of all Interior Department bureaus, furnishing radioactive bureau heads with the professional touch. For the dry statistical reports that are now the rule, Director Allen hopes to substitute dramatic treatment, has issued script samples to educate officials. Sample sample for a disquisition on reclamation, modern style...
Eleven years ago, Rev. Paul Schulte, a strapping, blond German priest of the Roman Catholic order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founded the Missionary Communications Association, to keep missionary outposts of the Church in touch with the world. Its motto : Obviam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ by land and sea and in the air"). Lately, Father Schulte, a crack pilot who wears his Roman collar under his flying togs, has been in northern Canada planning an aerial transport service for missionaries in the Arctic. In Churchill, Manitoba last week he learned that Bishop Armand Clabaut had received...
...assisted his talent in making him the most popular teacher of his time. In the early 1900s, one of his favorite pupils was a spindly, silent young Philadelphian named Charles Sheeler. On seeing many a Sheeler sketch, the master would drop his beribboned eyeglasses and cry, "Don't touch it!", meaning that deliberation was bad for brilliance. If Charles Sheeler has proved anything in the past 40 years it is that his teacher was wrong on that point...